Turning Learning Right Side Up

Putting Education Back on Track

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Educational Reform
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Author: Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg ISBN: 9780132716420
Publisher: Pearson Education Publication: June 3, 2008
Imprint: FT Press Language: English
Author: Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg
ISBN: 9780132716420
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication: June 3, 2008
Imprint: FT Press
Language: English

In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought to nourish.

 

In Turning Learning Right Side Up, legendary systems scientist Dr. Russell Ackoff and “in-the-trenches” education innovator Daniel Greenberg offer a radically new path forward. In the year’s most provocative conversation, they take on the very deepest questions about education: What should be its true purpose? Do classrooms make sense anymore? What should individuals contribute to their own education? Are yesterday’s distinctions between subjects--and between the arts and sciences--still meaningful? What would the ideal lifelong education look like--at K-12, in universities, in the workplace, and beyond?

 

Ackoff and Greenberg each have experience making radical change work--successfully. Here, they combine deep idealism with a relentless focus on the real world--and arrive at solutions that are profoundly sensible and powerfully compelling.

 

Why today’s educational system fails--and why superficial reforms won’t help
The questions politicians won’t ask--and the answers they don’t want to hear

** **

How do people learn--and why do they choose to learn?
Creating schools that reflect what we know about learning

** **

In a 21st century democracy, what values must we nurture?
...and why aren’t we nurturing them?

** **

How can tomorrow’s “ideal schools” be operated and funded?
A plan that cuts through political gridlock and can actually work

** **

Beyond schools: building a society of passionate lifelong learners
Learning from childhood to college to workplace through retirement

 

Reinventing Learning for the Next Century: How We Can, and Why We Must

** **

An extraordinary conversation about the very deepest questions...

* *

Today, what is education for?

Where should it take place? How? When?

What is the ideal school?

The ideal lifelong learning experience?

Who should be in charge of education?

And who pays for it all?

 

Over the past 150 years, virtually everything has changed...except education. Schools were designed as factories, to train factory workers. The factories are gone, but the schools haven’t changed. It’s time for us to return to first principles...or formulate new first principles...and reimagine education from the ground up.

 

In Turning Learning Right Side Up, two of this generation’s most provocative thinkers--and practical doers--have done just that. They draw on the latest scientific research, the most enduring human wisdom, and their unique lifelong personal experiences transforming institutions that resist change. And, along the way, they offer a powerful blueprint for a thriving society of passionate lifelong learners.

 

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In the age of the Internet, we educate people much as we did during the Industrial Revolution. We educate them for a world that no longer exists, instilling values antithetical to those of a free, 21st century democracy. Worst of all, too many schools extinguish the very creativity and joy they ought to nourish.

 

In Turning Learning Right Side Up, legendary systems scientist Dr. Russell Ackoff and “in-the-trenches” education innovator Daniel Greenberg offer a radically new path forward. In the year’s most provocative conversation, they take on the very deepest questions about education: What should be its true purpose? Do classrooms make sense anymore? What should individuals contribute to their own education? Are yesterday’s distinctions between subjects--and between the arts and sciences--still meaningful? What would the ideal lifelong education look like--at K-12, in universities, in the workplace, and beyond?

 

Ackoff and Greenberg each have experience making radical change work--successfully. Here, they combine deep idealism with a relentless focus on the real world--and arrive at solutions that are profoundly sensible and powerfully compelling.

 

Why today’s educational system fails--and why superficial reforms won’t help
The questions politicians won’t ask--and the answers they don’t want to hear

** **

How do people learn--and why do they choose to learn?
Creating schools that reflect what we know about learning

** **

In a 21st century democracy, what values must we nurture?
...and why aren’t we nurturing them?

** **

How can tomorrow’s “ideal schools” be operated and funded?
A plan that cuts through political gridlock and can actually work

** **

Beyond schools: building a society of passionate lifelong learners
Learning from childhood to college to workplace through retirement

 

Reinventing Learning for the Next Century: How We Can, and Why We Must

** **

An extraordinary conversation about the very deepest questions...

* *

Today, what is education for?

Where should it take place? How? When?

What is the ideal school?

The ideal lifelong learning experience?

Who should be in charge of education?

And who pays for it all?

 

Over the past 150 years, virtually everything has changed...except education. Schools were designed as factories, to train factory workers. The factories are gone, but the schools haven’t changed. It’s time for us to return to first principles...or formulate new first principles...and reimagine education from the ground up.

 

In Turning Learning Right Side Up, two of this generation’s most provocative thinkers--and practical doers--have done just that. They draw on the latest scientific research, the most enduring human wisdom, and their unique lifelong personal experiences transforming institutions that resist change. And, along the way, they offer a powerful blueprint for a thriving society of passionate lifelong learners.

 

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